 Photo credit: Ed Aiona  The Great Far Away: Northern California Book Award Nominee: "A compact, bittersweet tale capturing the essence of carefree youth and lost innocence." -Publishers Weekly  Miss Kansas City: Michigan Literary Fiction Award; Northern California Book Award Nominee: “An assured first novel by an irrepressibly talented writer.” –San Francisco Chronicle |
BiographyJoan Frank is the author of the novels The Great Far Away and Miss Kansas City, and the story collection Boys Keep Being Born. Her second story collection, In Envy Country, has recently won the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction, and will be published in that year by the University of Notre Dame Press. Joan was born to New Yorkers in Phoenix, Arizona, and has lived in the Hawaiian Islands, West Africa, Paris, France, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied with author Thaisa Frank (no relation) at the University of California in Berkeley, CA, and took an MFA in creative fiction at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. Joan is a MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, a Pushcart Prize- and Bread Loaf Fellow nominee, winner of the Dana Portfolio Award, Michigan Literary Fiction Award, Iowa Writing Award, and Emrys Fiction Award; she is the recipient of grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and two-time nominee for a Northern California Book Award in Fiction. She has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University, and in private consultation. She lives in Northern California. |
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